Chancellor gives his support to showcase initiative

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ALL publicity is good publicity, as the organisers of the UK School Games discovered yesterday when Gordon Brown arrived in Glasgow to launch a tournament that has been designed to showcase the best of the country’s young sporting talent.

A multi-sport event for schoolchildren would not normally create a media scrum but the political climate ensured that some of the stars of the evening bulletins and rolling news networks were out in force as the Chancellor of the Exchequer strode through the Scotstoun Stadium and Leisure Centre to lend his weight to the Games.